Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1893 — TOLD HIM TO "GIT” AND HE DID. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TOLD HIM TO "GIT” AND HE DID.

A Plucky Girl nnd the Trouble She Hurt with Her “Clulm." At the time of tho rush at the opening of the Cherokee Strip, one of the choicest of the available lots of tiie proposed town of Pawnee was taken by a young Kansas woman named Blake. After holding it until the worst of the rush was over, she left to got something to eat after having placed her stakes at the four corners. In less than half an hour she returned, only to find her lot In the possession of a b!g fellow named Bunn. He had torn down Miss Blake’s liandkorchlef, which she had placed at ono corner of the lot, and had also pulled out all her stakes. He had dug a shallow trench outlining u cellar and upon the strength of this improvement he announced bimsolf tho owner of tho lot. The young woman cried and made complaint to the other settlers, but in the excitement no ono paid any attention to her. Biding her time she obtained the names of people who saw hor originally claim the lot. Sunday she enlisted the sympathy of aboutthirty men, who listened to her story. They marched to Jim Dunn’s place where he had already erected a small shanty and covering him with their revolvers told him to “git.” Jim

protested, but the determined crowd told him that he would either have to “git” or be shot, and so he “got,” having been given two hours to leave the town. Miss Blake now reigns triumphantly on her claim.

TOLD HIM TO “GIT.”